, Venter’s patients are living long, healthy lives, and his role as a clinician is evolving too.
Until now, Venter says, he’d been giving his overweight and obese patients advice based on the outdated view that exercise and diet are the key to weight loss. “I’m shocked at my own behaviour,” he explains during the podcast conversation. In some communities , someone’s chance of getting infected with HIV is high. The same is true of how societal issues affect obesity, but there’s still so much shame around the condition. “It feels exactly like HIV,” Venter says.Weight gain, weight loss and HIV have a complicated relationship, Venter says.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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